It happened quickly. One minute Steve and Melvin were debating on the ethics of claiming a sapient android as property. The next minute, the intruder greeted them. She looked like a perfect duplicate of that one Asian lady in the lab, and they found themselves hesitant to shoot her, particularly because she was naked.
Sharon was careful to stand just outside the field of view of the security camera when she addressed the guards. "Hello gentlemen," she said sweetly. "Would you mind helping me get into the restricted labs?"
"Hold on. We were just joking for a couple minutes. We don't actually think you're a...uh...you know. You're under arrest... unless maybe you are some kind of android?" Steve said.
"What kind of question is that?" Sharon asked. "It would take some seriously advanced technology to build something like that."
"Look, if it exists, InnoDyne might have it. I don't know everything that goes on here, but I know our latest project has something to do with robotics, and my friends in accounting say it's really expensive," Steve said.
"That could be any of a large numberof things," Sharon replied.
"Yeah, but the three ladies in the experimental block. They've been there for two weeks, and nobody brings food in. They're either dead, which doesn't make any sense because the bio labs are on sublevel 1, or they're not actually human. And, the CEO of BlackCo has been visiting here. They make...er... highly realistic sex dolls."
"That makes a lot of sense now," Sharon said, her eyes widening as she processed the new information.
"So, what do you know?" Steve asked. "We told you, now tell us something."
Sharon was reluctant to waste too much time, but the chances of winning these guys over seemed good at the moment. "There's a hidden city with technology decades ahead of the rest of the country. The government leaves them alone in exchange for their latest advancements. Thirty years ago the government hired a scientist from that city to work at Capricorn, one of their research labs, and her main project was the creation of four androids, made so well that even they thought they were human. They grew up, living as normal humans for thirty years until they got a recall signal, to come back to Capricorn. The creator of the androids intended to only check up on their development and gather data for building the next generation. Her boss had decided, though, that the project be sold to InnoDyne, including the four androids, and he sent some extra muscle to make sure all four of them were brought in."
"And these four androids would be the girls in the restricted lab and you?" Steve guessed.
"When I got the signal yesterday morning, I was scared, and so was my boyfriend. We tried our best to disable the homing device, but when armed thugs came to the door, I ran. I was caught and taken to Capricorn, and I met my mother and learned about my three sisters. I came back here to save Jim and my sisters," Sharon explained.
"Okay, so you're a robot. Prove it," Steve demanded.
Sharon sighed and poked her eyes. Her face split open and revealed its mechanical interior.
"Holy crap," Melvin commented. "I didn't really expect her to be telling the truth." He reached out for Sharon's bare breast.
"Hey!" Sharon warned. "Don't touch those!"
"Sorry. Say, your sisters wouldn't happen to be single, would they?" Melvin asked.
"I don't know. Ask them," Sharon suggested.
"So how does Mr. Black fit into this?" Steve asked, changing the subject.
"That's easy. Big piles of cash. Military contractors are one thing but adult entertainment is a pretty big industry as well. Why sell to one when you could sell to both? I bet you could imagine how well an android like me could fit in either of those fields," Sharon said with a wink.
Sharon pulled the fire alarm, and rushed to the entrance of the restricted block. The two guards were too slow to raise their weapons as Sharon bashed their heads in. As she and Jim suspected, the fire alarm disabled the password requirement, and she beamed an ID card signal from her eyes at both readers at either side of the door. The blast door groaned open.
In one lab to the left, were two men standing around a row of tables, upon which were a total of three female androids in various states of assembly.
"I'm here to collect my sisters," Sharon announced.
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